If anyone wants to go back and look at historical references to Germany circa 1933/1934 this is profoundly similar in ideology. Jewish Mayor Ed Koch supported, and endorsed, candidate Obama even though he knew Obama was hateful toward Israel. Koch, says he figured Obama would win, so it would be better to support him and maybe Obama would go easier ‘on his’ people after the endorsement.

It’s like we’ve entered a time-warp back to the time of Dietrich Bonhoeffer:

Hitler knew his opponents were divided and couldn’t unite against him. He would play them off each other brilliantly and would consolidate his power with breathtaking speed and a calculating ruthlesses for which no one was prepared. On February 3 (still 1933) Goebbels wrote in his diary: “Now it will be easy to carry on the fight, for we can call on all the resources of the State. Radio and press are at our disposal. We shall stage a masterpiece of propaganda. And this time, naturally, there is no lack of money.” [ p. 145 of Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas]

In Discussing HAGEL - I admire former Mayor Ed Koch’s willingness to break with his own party on issues of principle, but his comments to the Algemeiner today are mind-boggling. In between some very strong denunciations of the Chuck Hagel nomination, Koch casually let it drop that he suspected Obama would abandon his pro-Israel positions after the election. The former mayor, of course, endorsed Obama’s reelection and served as one of his surrogates to the pro-Israel community:

“Frankly, I thought that there would come a time when [Obama] would renege on what he conveyed on his support of Israel,” said Koch, adding, “it comes a little earlier than I thought it would.”

“It’s very disappointing, I believe he will ultimately regret it,” Koch said, “and it undoubtedly will reduce support for him in the Jewish community, but I don’t think he (the President) worries about that now that the election is over.” …

Koch explained to The Algemeiner why he decided to back the President’s re-election even though he says he suspected that Obama would backtrack on his pro-Israel overtures. “I did what I thought was warranted and intelligent,” he said, “He was going to win! There was no question about it. I thought it would be helpful to have a Jewish voice there, being able to communicate.” (read more)

13 Responses to 1933/34 Revisited in 2012 – Via Mayor Koch: ‘I knew He Would Screw Israel, I Just Thought It Would Take Longer’….

I thought one of the guiding philosophies of the Jewish people after WWII was “Never Again”. It seems that Mayor Koch is comfortable trying to bid for the this regimes approval while being drug from his house without resistence.

“…truth is very beautiful; more so, as I consider, than justice — today’s pursuit — which easily puts on a false face. In the nearly seven decades I have lived through, the world has overflowed with bloodshed and explosions whose dust has never had time to settle before others have erupted; all in purportedly just causes. The quest for justice continues, and the weapons and hatred pile up; but truth was an early casualty. The lies on behalf of which our wars have been fought and our peace treaties concludes! The lies of revolution and of counter-revolution! The lies of advertising, of news, of salesmanship, of politics! The lies of the priest in his pulpit, the professor at his podium, the journalist at his typewriter! The lie stuck like a fish-bone in the throat of the microphone, the hand-held lies of the prowling cameraman! Ignazio Silone told me once how, when he was a member of the old Comintern, some strategem was under discussion, and the delegate, a newcomer who had never attended before, made the extraordinary observation that if such and such statement were to be put out, it wouldn’t be true. There was a moment of dazed silence, and then everyone began to laugh. They laughed and laughed until tears ran down their cheeks and the Kremlin walls seemed to shake. The same laughter echoes in every council chamber and cabinet room, wherever two or more are gathered together to exercise authority. It is truth that has died, not God.”
Malcolm Muggeridge, Chronicles of Wasted Time, (Vancouver: Regent College Publishing, 2006), 19-20.

One of the most amazing phenomena of the 20th century, the Jewish ‘moth-to-the-flame suicidal attachment to the black community, Early on (mid-60s) I had one Jewish friend tell me that the American Jewish community was somewhat embarrassed that they had sat on their hands and did virtually nothing to save the European Jews from the camps and couldn’t stop the FDR administration from sending ships full of Jews that came to America back to Europe where they ended up in the camps. A desire, I’m betting at least partially driven by Holocaust comparisons, to help black Americans achieve equal rights drove many Jewish lawyers, politicians and activists to become deeply involved in the civil rights movement. Wasn’t long afterwards and a lot of the black community, especially conservative religious factions, turned on the Jews who’d helped them, at best just lumping them in with all of the rest of the Blue-eyed Devils. Now we have an American-African POtuS who’s codified anti-Semitism on an international scale and guess who voted for him in droves? I have no idea what the present Administration has in store for the American Jewish community but, if I were Jewish, I’d weigh his policies towards fundamentalist-controlled Islamic countries against his Israeli policies and plan accordingly.

Koch knows. He is, and has been, playing both sides of the fence and he will continue to get away with it. He is a self loathing Jew who has no problem selling out his own. It’s all about the money and the power. Get those you want in power and then act shocked when they do what they do. They laugh about it amongst themselves behind closed doors. It’s one of the oldest games in the book but it works.